The High Court of London on Friday overturned on appeal the refusal to extradite WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange, who Washington wants to try for a massive leak of documents, to the United States.
The Court "allows the appeal" brought by the United States, said Judge Tim Holroyde, which means that the courts overturn the first instance decision and that the British courts will have to rule again on the American extradition request .
"Ignoble English decision to expel Assange to the USA", tweeted Jean-Luc Mélenchon, denouncing "a murder under appearance judicial".
"Shame on those who let it happen," he added.
It is "a terrible message to the defenders of press freedom!", Also tweeted Fabien Roussel, who "calls, once again, for France to grant political asylum to Julian Assange".
On the far right, Florian Philippot also deplored the "dreadful extradition of Julian #Assange to the United States! For years we have been asking that France grow by granting him asylum! What France under oligarchic tutelage is obviously not! Shameful! ", he said on Twitter.
Mid-November, MPs had called for WikiLeaks founder enjoys "political asylum" in France, to escape US prosecution.
A motion for a resolution had been signed by forty elected officials from all sides, including François Ruffin (LFI) and Jean Lassalle (Liberties and Territories), to affirm that "France cannot remain silent" in the face of the Australian's fate. .
On November 17, the National Assembly adopted at first reading a bill aimed at strengthening the protection of whistleblowers.
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